48 TE.E. AND GR.E.E.N How to Watch the Open-Melhorn in the Bushes-Best Shot of Sarazen's Career I T takes, accord- ing to the best authorities, f i v e years to learn how to play golf really well. It t a k e s longer than that to learn how to watch it. The particular difficulty at most big tournaments lies in the fact that the course is over- run with marshals. It is the duty of a marshal, equipped with a flag and usu- ally some badges, to prevent stray spec- tators from wandering into the line of a drive or standing too close to a contest- ant while he is making a shot. Actually, thIs usually turns out to be his least noticeable function. The ones we have observed in the past have almost with- out exception regarded their banners and badges simply as tickets to the most advantageous viewpoints on the course. Watching a tournament frequently consists in studying the course marshals from the rear, a pastime which even- tually loses its allure. An easier and more effective method is to select what looks like one of the uglier hazards on the course and settle down there to see what happens. The practicality of this became apparent to us three seasons ago at Winged Foot, where the marshal trouble was exag- gerated by a large and hysterical gallery that had come out to straggle after Bobby Jones. We had retired to a small patch of forest near the fourth hole, to consider the advisability of hiring out as a caddy or going home, when we saw the one moment of the tournament that we would have hated most to miss. There was a noise of someone thrash- ing about in a bramble patch near the place where we were sitting. We looked out and saw Wild Bill Melhorn living up to his reputation in a way that he has seldom managed since. He was trying to hold back some alders with his left foot and his teeth while using a niblick to dig at his ball, which had lodged it- self un der a ston e. He got it out after three tries, bunting it into a tree stump. Then he bunkered it in seven and got down in ten, with a good recovery, on a par-four hole. Most pros, under the circumstances, would have picked up and gone back to the clubhouse, re- lieved that the disaster had come at the beginning of the tournament if it had to come at all. Melhorn remarked: ""'1i\ ' tiiibù: . ' " , .. i$> , r :1t ': J .. "" ' :: ' " : : : ' " ' : :': = :: " : : : ' ,: = ,: ' :: : :: < . ' : ::, ' , ' , '" .:," ' , .:, ", ' , : , ! , , , ' , ' ,' , ' ,"', ' ,', ' , .. , : . ., . .: . x . :; . . :. ": " " " " ' " " "" " ' " . " ' ": . :,: ' ::, ' : : .. :, ' : ",, . ' : : ,:: , . , ' : :', . :. , ' , ' , : , : ,, :: ,, : , ': , 1 ; " ' . i , " :. : , :,. : ,,, :v ,, _ . : : ' ,. ' ::, ' ; , : " . ' , ' , ' , ," , " , ::, ' "=" , " , : ,, : ' . , . , ':' _ ,: , , : ;: , ' :: :. . . . ::," ::" :: ,, <- : ' :, l , ;'::,' ,: ' .... -?' , , '\ '" ''', ",,:f :<: .. 'c . .,.. .0:. ",3 i:"" "" .* : { ?" :: -' fi . ':' . ':(11 }/. '1.- .': ;i ' / . ..' s. . . :: <.:::::'- . '. ..", ",.. '*"'" J. :;:>: / ., ', ",:,:.. ':kf,(;,/ f. 'i; : tf ... -?, . ...( - ':';' :::fi. "Jt '14'.";';< " : å t , .., ' \ >::",:,;,:r, '....' ::: \'" :".' << d,. 1 ,r l t . "Well, I'll spot the field six strokes," and got a birdie on the next hole. W INGED FOOT is a considerably wilder course than Fresh Mead- ow, but Fresh Meadow has one excel- lent stand of timber which should be worth investigating in next week's Open. Shady and comfortable-for a non contestant-it runs along the six- teenth fairway, separating it from the thirteenth. It is all the more inviting to a brassie shot because the other side of the sixteenth is out of bounds, and because the approach to the green, as we remember it, is better from the : , :='%", . ' , <ç. . .,., ' . . ;, ' : tf ; ::- !} pJlí ti , L .... ), } -;: . ;1;- . f . 'J: ."" .. f t,,= .' .: i; .. ::::: >. ' :'% ' " ......... -. u:':' "i;;; , ': . {i;: , . , ,"'" .. ,::Æ '_ ::' right. This patch of woods is notable already as the spot where Gene Sarazen made what people who saw it describe as the best shot of his career. A year or two ago, in an exhibition match against Hagen, his ball rolled into the edge of the grove in such a way that his shot for the pin was to all appear- ances completely shut off by trees. Sara- zen had a fair opening through which to get back on the fairway, but instead of using it, he hooked his ball with a mashie niblick. It shot through a nar- row opening in the branches, then curved sharply in to the green and stopped two feet from the hole. It was t:: J.i ; ': , #; .i t: :: ?:. .:::..:::....:. :::X :-.".:_ ";;',: .:* :::::-:::::: 'ë;:ii A :J , '"::::;.-.:;. ::...':!.::' ;4.: L :,. :'?:.Já ":..:-;..::' ...<.:.... .\: ,:', ::'::,':,:" ,',', "r. 0 ./ :f '" '( ;i,: il:rf*Z *Ali ; ,,,,'::à ' .o . . w..;,/ . CCA hole in one! M e! I'm going cra-zyl"